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ttf-dejavu package

  1. Bug #35470
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 35470

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Denis Moyogo Jacquerye (moyogo) wrote :

Don't be sorry :) I should be for using jargon.

The original screenshot http://librarian.launchpad.net/1783378/DejaVu.png and http://librarian.launchpad.net/1847447/new_dejavu.jpg both show characters with special spacing for some sequences.

DejaVu fonts have the same spacing, or kerning, values as BitStream Vera fonts.

BitStream Vera fonts are TTF, but the old kind. DejaVu fonts are TTF with OpenType tables. Because Pango 1.12 has introduced a bug while fixing other things (ligatures, combining diacritics, etc.), BitStream Vera fonts don't show any kerning. So you don't have the e closer to the stem of the T for example. This is wrong.
The e should go a bit below the top arms of the T.

With Pango <1.11 Bitstream Vera was kerned properly, but DejaVu wasn't.

Normally DejaVu fonts space characters exactly as Bitstream Vera fonts. If you don't like how they are spaced then we could look into that.